Dreamland Burning
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Jennifer Latham
A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.
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Author
Jennifer Latham
Pages
384
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published Date
2017-02-21
ISBN
0316384941 9780316384940
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"The switch between perspectives helped me stay engaged, for I’d want to know what happened next to the characters."
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Teagan Lockett
"i love this book it is one the best books i've ever read! it opened my mind to more of the racial discrimination that was going on at the start of the civil rights movement. i also love dual-narrated books and this author does an excellent job. it's an amazing mystery that keeps you on the edge of your seat pretty much the whole book. definitely recommend!!"